Goodbye Frank. We'll miss you. 💔

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+title: 'Goodbye, Dear Frank.'
+date: 2021-09-14 11:28:02 -0500
+author: ashmaroli
+categories: [team, community]
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+
+Over the weekend, the Jekyll core team learned of the passing of one of their own: *Frank Taillandier*, popularly known
+by his GitHub username @DirtyF.
+
+Ruby not being his forte, he chose to avoid code-level changes and instead focus on what he did best — *engage with
+the community*.
+
+He helped resolve complaints reported on the GitHub issue tracker, ensured that Jekyll documentation remained simple for
+novice users yet detailed enough for advanced users seeking additional information.
+
+He also served as the administrator for Jekyll's public [discourse forum](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/) where he not only
+addressed queries from users and provided tips to improve Jekyll workflow, he also shared feedback on Jekyll sites
+created by the community, and used the forum as a platform to gather feedback on unreleased iterations of Jekyll and
+in-house plugins.
+
+Abreast with latest developments in the Web-verse, Frank was always quick to introduce technologies that vastly improved
+maintenance in the Jekyll organization. He was instrumental in setting up deploy previews for patches to Jekyll's
+documentaion site and later wiring GitHub Actions to handle continuous integrations for Jekyll and in-house projects.
+
+In spite of spiritually moving away from Jekyll during the later part of his career, choosing to concentrate efforts on
+furthering JAMstack projects, he greatly remained active on Jekyll's development channel on Slack relaying key feedback
+from the community or discuss concerns regarding the future of Jekyll at length.
+
+Having untimely left Jekyll and our community with an unfillable void, he will be missed immensely. :broken_heart:
+
+Rest in Peace, friend and colleague. :bouquet: